Intussen, in het leven van Allen Ginsberg
Het hele leven1962–1963
Wandering through India: Calcutta and Benares
With Peter Orlovsky he travelled extensively across India, living half a year at a time in Calcutta (now Kolkata) and Benares (Varanasi). When the authorities were eager to expel him, his political connections, most notably Pupul Jayakar, helped him extend his stay.
1962–1963
Meetings with Tibetan teachers in India
During an early trip to India with Gary Snyder, whose chanting of the Prajnaparamita, in Ginsberg’s words, “blew my mind”, he met the Dalai Lama and the Karmapa at Rumtek Monastery and, in Kalimpong, Dudjom Rinpoche, who taught him not to cling to anything horrible or anything beautiful.
1965
In Moscow: Voznesensky and Akhmadulina
He travelled to the USSR, where in Moscow he met the Sixties poets Andrei Voznesensky and Bella Akhmadulina.
late April 1965
King of May in Prague
In April, after Warsaw, he arrived in Prague, where at a youth street carnival he was elected “King of May” (Král Majáles).
7 May 1965
Arrest in Prague and expulsion from Czechoslovakia
A week after being named King of May, Ginsberg was arrested for alleged drug use and public drunkenness, and the StB confiscated writings it considered lewd and morally dangerous; he was deported from Czechoslovakia on 7 May 1965.
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![Wreath of Laurel, Palm, and Juniper with a Scroll inscribed Virtutem Forma Decorat [reverse], Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1474/1478](https://api.nga.gov/iiif/ff62e8d0-45c4-498f-ad36-6358de827e04/full/!2400,2400/0/default.jpg)
